Maurice Verheesen is currently preparing research on the inclusion of FLOSS in neutral tactical purchasing of software.

Much is known about the adoption of FLOSS. Literature states for instance reasons, trends and factors that influence the adoption. However when comparing procurement practices with the FLOSS phenomenon one can see several incompatibilities:

IFIP TC 2 WG 2.13 Call for Papers

The focus of this track is on new software engineering method for Open Source Software development in distributed and large scaled environments, strategies for promoting, adopting, using Open Source Solutions and case studies or success stories in specific domains.

Important Dates

* Paper Submission - 6/30
* Acceptance/Reject notification - 8/15
* Camera ready - 9/1
* Author registration due date - 9/1

Track: Internet and the Digital Economy
Minitrack: Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Contents and Open Communities

We seek papers for a mini-track on Open Movement phenomena, such as:
* Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
* Open Contents (OC)
* Open Access Publishing (OA)
* Open Communities (OComm)

3rd FLOSS International Workshop on Free/Libre Open Source Software
2-3 July 2009, Padua, Italy

Registration is now open at the official 3rd FLOSS website:
http://www.decon.unipd.it/personale/curri/manenti/floss/floss09.html

FLOSS embraces many dimensions and it is of interest of very different
disciplines; we welcome submissions from various fields: economics &
management, sociology, law, IT & computer science. Both empirical
(monographs and case studies, econometric or experimental methods) and
theoretical approaches are eligible for the Workshop. In what follows

Project Oekonux researches the economical, political and social forms of Free Software and similar forms of production we collectively call peer production. In Project Oekonux, different people with different reasons and different approaches get together to build something new. A lot of participants want to know, whether and if so, how, the peer production can serve as a basis for a new society.

A bibliography and links to FLOSS workshops and journal special issues is available from opensource.ucc.ie.

1st International Workshop on "D4PL - Designing for participatory learning"
Building from open source success to develop free ways to share and learn

Co-located with OSS 2009, 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems
June 6, 2009, Skövde, Sweden

CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Intentions to submit should be sent until 15th of February 2009!
http://www.flosscom.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=90

The 2nd Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development Workshop will have as an overarching theme "How to close the gap between Software Engineering and FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) Development", and will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss what knowledge software engineering experts can provide to the wider FLOSS communities.

Organizers: Andrea Capiluppi and Gregorio Robles
Website: http://icse.libresoft.es/
Deadline: January 26
Meeting Date: May 18, 2009

Workshop Theme

CALL FOR PAPERS: QACOS-OSSPL 2009

A Joint Workshop of:

QACOS: Quality and Architectural Concerns in Open Source Software
OSSPL: Open Source Software and Product Lines

Workshop website: http://www.lero.ie/qacososspl09

in conjunction with the International Conference on Open Source Systems 2009 http://oss2009.org
Skövde, Sweden, 3-6 June, 2009
The workshop will be organised June 6, 2009.

Paper submission (deadline): 24 February 2009.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The First International Workshop on Building Sustainable Open Source
Communities (OSCOMM 2009 http://tutopen.cs.tut.fi/oscomm09/) in conjunction
with OSS 2009 http://www.oss2009.org/
Skovde, Sweden, June 6, 2009

Intention to submit: February 15, 2009
Paper submission (deadline): February 22, 2009.

Open source software is gaining momentum in several forms. In addition to
the huge increase in the number of open source projects started and the
remarkable rise of FLOSS adoption by companies, new models of participation